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White House Touts Job Creation in Education Field

The White House on Monday turned to the politically potent issue of education to promote its implementation of the stimulus bill, announcing that 250,000 of the 1 million jobs that it says have been “saved or created” by the legislation so far were education jobs.

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Rep. Frank Pallone waits Feb. 8 for the start of a news conference to introduce legislation to keep arsenic and lead out of fruit juices.
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